Ennui Quotes
Ennui Quote of the day
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.
... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
